The Mary Cecilia Rogers Mystery

Dark Histories

Ben Cutmore

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🗓️ 18 May 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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In the 19th Century, the Elysian Fields in New Jersey, lay just a short boat trip away for New Yorkers looking to stretch their legs, take in some rural, countryside air or relax on the lawn of a riverside refreshment house with a glass of lemonade. Mostly famous for being the birthplace of modern baseball, the fields have another, somewhat less well-known story connected to their dense thickets and green walkways. Far from the straightforward drubbing of that first game of baseball, this story is, of course far darker, full of more twists and turns and has no winners. Hailed as one of the greatest criminal mysteries of 19th Century New York, the case of Mary Rogers is at once perfectly well solved and at the same time, completely wide open. SOURCES Stashower, Daniel (2006) The Beautiful Cigar Girl: Mary Rogers, Edgar Allen Poe & The Invention of Murder. Berkley Publishing Group, NY, USA Bowery News Office (1841) Trial of Madame Restell, alias Ann Lohman, for abortion and causing the death of Mrs. Purdy : being a full account of all the proceedings on the trial, together with the suppressed evidence and editorial remarks. Bowery News Office, NY, USA. Poe, Edgar Allen (2014) The Complete Tales & Poems of Edgar Allen Poe. Race Point Publishing, NY, USA Abbot, Karen (2012) Madame Restell: The Abortionist of Fifth Avenue. Smithsonian Magazine [online] Smithsonian Magazine. Available at: [Accessed 6 May 2022]. The Buffalo Daily Republic (1851) Riot In Hoboken. The Buffalo Daily Republic, Thursday 29 May, 1851, p.2. NY, USA. New York Daily Herald (1838) Beautiful Girls Serving In Stores. New York Daily Herald, Monday 8 October, 1838, p.2. NY, USA. The Evening Post (1841) The Mysterious Death of Miss Rogers. The Evening Post, Monday 16 August, 1841, p.2. NY, USA. The Evening Post (1841) Murder of Miss Rogers. The Evening Post, Saturday 21 August, 1841, p.2. NY, USA. The New York Tribune (1842) The Mary Rogers Mystery Explained. 18 November, 1942. P.2. NY, USA ---------- For almost anything, head over to the podcasts hub at darkhistories.com Support the show by using our link when you sign up to Audible: http://audibletrial.com/darkhistories or visit our Patreon for bonus episodes and Early Access: https://www.patreon.com/darkhistories The Dark Histories books are available to buy here: http://author.to/darkhistories Dark Histories merch is available here: https://bit.ly/3GChjk9 Connect with us on Facebook: http://facebook.com/darkhistoriespodcast Or find us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/darkhistories & Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dark_histories/ Or you can contact us directly via email at [email protected] or via voicemail on: (415) 286-5072 or join our Discord community: https://discord.gg/cmGcBFf The Dark Histories Butterfly was drawn by Courtney, who you can find on Instagram @bewildereye Music was recorded by me © Ben Cutmore 2017 Other Outro music was Paul Whiteman & his orchestra with Mildred Bailey - All of me (1931). It's out of copyright now, but if you're interested, that was that.

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0:00.0	In the 19th century, the Elysium fields in New Jersey lay just a short boat
0:05.3	dripper way for New Yorkers looking to spread their legs, take in some rural
0:09.5	countryside air, or relax on the lawn of a riverside refreshment house with a
0:14.0	glass of lemonade. Mostly famous for being the birthplace of modern baseball,
0:18.6	the fields have another somewhat less well-known story connected to their
0:22.8	dense thickets and green walkways. Far from the straightforward dropping of
0:27.8	that first game of baseball, this story is, of course, far darker, full of
0:33.0	more twists and turns, and has no winners. Haild is one of the greatest criminal
0:38.9	mysteries of 19th century New York. The case of Mary Rogers is at once perfectly
0:43.9	well-solved, and at the same time completely wide open. This is dark histories,
0:49.9	and the facts are worse than fiction.
0:57.3	Hello and welcome to Dark History's Season 6 episode 8. I'm Ben, the host, as always.
1:03.2	I hope this episode finds you well. It's good to be back. Before we start, I want
1:09.0	to just check out a couple of little kind of things that I've
1:13.7	worth talking about. Firstly, Dark History is going to be five years old in
1:19.2	about a month and a half, which is madness. And sort of to celebrate, I've got
1:25.9	a couple of things that I'm brewing up, and one of them will be a live stream,
1:29.9	which I'm looking to do on YouTube, which I haven't done for quite a while. So
1:34.9	I think that'd be nice. And as part of the live stream, I would like to
1:38.6	include some sort of like ask me anything kind of section. So now's your
1:45.6	chance. If you ever had anything you wanted to ask, or you want in any
1:50.4	answers about any of the episodes that I've done in the past, or any of the
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